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‘But Sarah Binks was rabbed it froet it?’

‘It was hidden in Madeleine’s bedside table,’ said Gaht I’d just lost it’

‘She took it fro to do with it,’ hissed Myrna ‘When you told Odile she reht it was a compliment She worships you Madeleine didn’t want you to hurt her, so she hid it’

‘This is a little soaht into the creative process, this natural affinity between poetry and the playoffs

She cleared her throat

‘A cursed duck pecked off his ear,

And his face grew peaked and pale;

"Oh, how can a woman love me now?"

Was his constant and lonely wail;

But a woman came and she loved the man,

With a love serene and clear –

She loved him as only a woman can love

A reeted the last word Odile stood uncertainly on the porch Then, to his horror, Gah the crowd, the Sarah Binks book clutched in her hand and Rosa quacking behind